"Our military salaries in the Great Song Dynasty are too low, even if they are paid in full, the maximum monthly salary is only 500 Wen, and the minimum is 300 Wen, even if you add some pickles and coarse salt, it is not enough every month......

In fact, the military of the forbidden army of the Great Song Dynasty is still okay, take the Hebei forbidden army as an example, according to the regulations of the Shenzong Dynasty, they (the infantry army) can receive two stones of monthly ration per month, a thousand wen per month, two horses of silk, half a horse of cloth, one hundred wen for pickles, and twelve taels of cotton in winter.

If the money is distributed in full to each soldier, it will be no problem to feed a family of three or four.

However, as the finances of the Great Song Dynasty became more and more difficult, and more and more soldiers were raised, the treatment of soldiers stipulated by the imperial court naturally slowly declined.

Add to this inflation and soaring prices, and the corruption of corrupt officials and corrupt officials is becoming more and more serious, and it is not surprising that the life of soldiers is becoming more and more difficult.

However, in just a few decades, soldiers' salaries will not drop by half all at once.

Zhao Xuan, who presided over the grievance meeting, immediately interrupted the grievances of the surrendered soldier and said loudly: "These little brothers are wrong, as far as I know, the imperial court stipulates that your monthly military salary is 700 Wen, and the monthly grain is one stone and five buckets!" ”

The soldier named Chen Ergou looked shocked and said, "Isn't it five hundred Wen?" What about the two hundred texts? ”

"This is to ask Gao Yu, the Privy Council, and the nobles of Bianjing City, the big turban is the prince!"

Zhao Xuan turned around and said: "I am from Liangshanjun, you may not believe it, so please ask Gao Yu and Gao Taiwei's henchmen to tell everyone about Hu Chun, the prisoner of Gyeonggi Prefecture!" ”

Facing the angry gaze of thousands of soldiers, Hu Chun actually had some drumming in his heart, because he was not only the Dumen Forbidden Army, but also the elite of the imperial camp with the best treatment in the Dumen Forbidden Army, and he was also Gao Yu's henchman.

And these are the forbidden troops stationed in various places, and the treatment is several grades worse than that of the Dumen Forbidden Army, especially the elite of the imperial camp, not to mention that the nobles and ministers of Bianjing City have concealed a lot of their money and food from the beginning, can these people not be angry with themselves?

There are no soldiers around me now, if the Lord of the Lin Army lets him lead the troops in the future, it is okay to bring the Liangshan veterans, and bring these Hebei forbidden troops, I am afraid that I will have to be afraid on the battlefield in the future, and beware of the hidden arrows behind me at any time.

However, Hu Chun couldn't care about this matter so much, so he had to bite the bullet and tell everyone that he knew about Gao Yu and the nobles of the Political Hall and the Privy Council who ate their two hundred Wen Yue and three buckets of monthly food at once.

After Hu Chun finished speaking, there was a slight silence around him, and then he burst out violently, and he heard some people scolding at the top of their voices: "Straight mothers and thieves are also soldiers who work hard, why are our soldiers so much more than those bird soldiers in Tokyo City!" Are their lives more valuable, and ours cheaper?

That's it, everyone is a soldier, and they have never detained us, but Gao Yu and Cai Jing, who are straight thieves, still ate us so much at the beginning, is this still reasonable? ”

"it! The nobles of the city of Tokyo are greedy for us, and the big turbans on the local area are drifting away (that is, the loss on the way to escort money and food.) For example, 10,000 stone of military rations were escorted by civilian officials, but the ship capsized, was robbed by robbers, became moldy and spoiled in the water, and was only 7,000 stone transported to the barracks. Anyway, there are always accidents on the road, it's not that we are corrupt, you can't blame us, this is called drifting) ours, the lord and the official detained us, and sent to us less than half, and was driven by the lord's turban like a slave, this Song Dynasty soldier deserves to be so aggrieved, if it weren't for the tattoo on the face and hand, it would be a felony to be caught, and Lao Tzu would have run away from his mother! ”

The sergeant's words immediately resonated with all the soldiers, the soldiers of the Song Dynasty had a low status, and they were looked down upon, and they were corrupted, drifted, and deducted from each other, and their income was low, and they had to tattoo words on their faces, arms, and backs of their hands, so that no one wanted to be a soldier.

But there is no way, speaking of which, few of these ordinary soldiers are willing to join the army and contribute to the country, so I saw a tall and thin soldier standing up and saying: "I just suffered a disaster in my hometown, and I was hungry and had no choice, so I ate the bowl of rice as a soldier......

After this man finished speaking, the other person also rushed to stand up and said: "My family did not suffer a disaster, but I killed a dog of Yuan Taigong Yuan Yanwang's family in our village, and I was caught and thorned to be used as a ...... army."

"What are you guys, Lao Tzu was wronged, just because he grew tall, when he watched the temple fair, suddenly the gate was closed, and a group of officers and soldiers rushed in, and the rope was set on Lao Tzu's head, and he was forced to be a soldier, and Lao Tzu also escaped, but he was beaten with a hundred military sticks, and the words were tattooed on his hands......"

At this time, Lin Chong also found here, Wang Huan and the others were about to salute, but Lin Chong signaled with his hand that there was no need to be polite, and the group stood behind the wall and continued to listen.

I heard another prisoner of war raise his hand and stood up and said: "I was wronged, I didn't recruit anyone and didn't provoke anyone, I just walked on the road, and as a result, I was arrested and used as a soldier......

"But I glanced at a few more women on the road, and someone tattooed me on the face......"

Hearing these soldiers, the more excited they became, some of them even cried bitterly as they spoke, and even Lin Chong, who was listening quietly in the back, couldn't help but be moved.

Lin Chong's previous life was just a simple engineering dog, because he admired Yue Fei and deliberately learned more about the history of the two Song Dynasty, every time he read about the turn of the two Song Dynasty, the Song army always fled from the wind, and was lazy and cowardly.

At this time, I heard them complain with my own ears, talked about my thoughts, and then thought of the words that were full of words such as: "Soldiers are soldiers", "and promise to assassinate", "Most of the new recruits are hungry people", "There are criminals and people with serious feelings under the cane, except for Salmon Island...... The rest and avoid the decision to stab and fill", "The army catches people and stabs Nirvana to make up for the forehead", "The Japanese, the Jinmyeongchi People's Congress, the big rope of the door is ignored, but the long-bodied young man is led away, and the cloud is 'filled with the army'", "The close Gyeonggi Zhuyi has its own assassination, and as for no one to recruit, the villagers and pedestrians are forcibly arrested. As a result, the hooligans ran into horror, and the business travelers were not good", and so on, with starving people, criminals, and even forcibly arresting passers-by to serve as soldiers, and stabbing the face.

Think about it from another perspective, if you are forced to be dragged to be a soldier, you have to tattoo words on your face, you are deducted from your salary, and you are discriminated against and looked down upon, then you will also have good anger and hatred in your heart, and foreign enemies may scatter in a hurry.

Therefore, the second half of the History of the Song Dynasty and the Chronicles of the Soldiers 7 is full of words such as: "Beggars have fled since now to match the army as thieves, listen to the capture and beheading, and reward money", "The deserters gathered in the present place, to the thousands, the small ones alarmed the townships, and the large ones were robbers", "Recently, there were tens of thousands of fugitives all the way to Xihe", "The number of fugitive troops in Zhulu and Gyeonggi was the majority, although the pardon was set up and the limit was set up, they were finally afraid to avoid it", "In the fifth year of (Zhenghe), the soldiers and craftsmen of Liqian Jian escaped and stabbed their backs. "There are quite a lot of deserters", "those who should have fled from all walks of life or who should have been pardoned and avoided, but returned to the place where they fled and fled again, should be ordered to be the first in the place where they went, and they should be exonerated from the crime", and other ways to deal with deserters or severely punish or pardon them, but the problem of desertion has not been resolved.

The morale of the army is like this, so is it strange that the Northern Song Dynasty does not perish?